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Erase my name


Ex:32:30-35
Moses is interceding for the children of Israel in the mountain.
V:32. But now, if you will only forgive their sin- but if not, erase my name from the record you have written.
Such an intense prayer for Israel - Lord please forgive them. If you do not forgive them - erase my name from the book - but please don't erase their name.
When can such an intense prayer be prayed for another person? It is when you love him/her so much that you don't value yourselves more than them.
As a child I used to get febrile seizures ( A disease of convulsions during an episode of fever). So whenever I used to have a bout of fever, my grandmother (Ammachi as we dearly call her) would pray for me this prayer. Being a very short lady, she would wak from one end of the bed to the other, touching me head to toe that I would be healed of this sickness and it would rather come on her. I'm not advocating that kind of prayer but highlighting the intensity of her love to me.
Rom:9:3
I would be willing to be forever cursed - cut off from Christ. If that would save them.

Ooo! That's an extreme prayer of selflessness.

Jesus Christ gave up His divine privileges
He took the humble position of a slave.
Phil:2:7

When have we prayed like that ?
Even for our wife?
For our children?

Little do we realize even our prayers are selfish!
Can we pray like that selflessly for someone today? That even if my desires are not fulfilled I want God to intervene in that person's life.
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  1. Unknown22 August 2020 at 08:41

    🙏

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  2. Unknown22 August 2020 at 09:56

    Amen

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  3. Unknown22 August 2020 at 10:15

    Fantastic thought Amit ,Let our eternal God strengthen your hands and brain to write amazing thoughts.
    Unless we have a God who intererceded our life have being in eternal hell

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    1. the halfbaked bard22 August 2020 at 11:56

      Yes true. Not my thoughts indeed. All from God. These are His thoughts

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  4. Unknown22 August 2020 at 10:20

    Praise God Mon for the important message

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  5. Unknown22 August 2020 at 10:42

    Moses the epitome of meekness knew the other side of the Lord....Dripping with compassion and oozing love 😇

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    1. the halfbaked bard22 August 2020 at 11:53

      Amen so true .... Having considered he talked to God face to face he knew God. That's why

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  6. Smita Itty 22 August 2020 at 14:44

    Only if we are filled with godly love ,one can pray such a prayer as this !
    Moses,Abraham ,Paul , Esther were all great intercessors who stood in the gap . May God give us grace .
    Ammachy 😍

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